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RALLY TO MARK THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ASSAULTS ON 56 WOMEN IN CENTRAL PARK WILL TAKE PLACE ON JUNE 9, 2001 On Saturday, June 9th, at 1 p.m., there will be a rally at Central Park South (59th Street) and Sixth Avenue to mark the first anniversary of last year's Central Park assaults on June 11, 2000, when over 56 women were assaulted, stripped and molested by a large group of men. The rally is being organized by The Street Harassment Project and Hijas de la Rebeldia (Daughters of Rebellion). Featured speakers will include Peyton Bryant, one of the women attacked in Central Park last year, a representative of N.O.W (NYC), as well as speakers who will report on some of the lesser known assaults that women have experienced recently on our city streets. There will also be music and performances by Estrotribe, Radical Cheerleaders and more. The themes of the rally will be: 1) Women are still outraged by the event of 1 year ago and will not forget. 2) What happened last year was not an isolated event, but is related to the harassment and menacing of women by men in public spaces that goes on all the time. 3) This is not a protest of the Puerto Rican Day parade or any aspect of it--the sexist attitudes that caused this incident to happen are spread across every ethnic group, as evidenced by the rapes at Woodstock '99 and the recent spate of sexual assaults on women by police on Long Island. 4) The lack of adequate police response at the time is a statement of the fact that sexual abuse of women is still not taken seriously in our society. The Central Park assaults of June 11, 2000 happened after a crowd of men, started dousing women passing by with water and then escalated to pulling off the women's clothes and sexually molesting them, after and during the Puerto Rican Day parade. They then proceeded to assault in this way any woman passing through the area, with over 56 women eventually reporting having been attacked. A number of these women and others, who had observed what was going on, tried to get the police to intervene, but reported being met with indifference. Thirty men were arrested, 16 pled guilty and received sentences ranging from probation to prison time. To date, no police officers have received departmental discipline. The Street Harassment Project is a group of women who fight the omnipresent harassment of women by men in the streets and other public spaces such as parks, subways and school buildings. Since becoming active a year ago they have been publicized in Time Out and Bust magazines. They do street theater, graphics and workshops around the city. Daughters of Rebellion (Hijas de la Rebeldia) are a multi-ethnic, multiracial group of women working out of the La Pena community center in the South Bronx. They staged a rally after the Central Park attacks of last year and have worked on a variety of women's issues. Endorsers: BASTA (Bringing All Sisters To Action), Black Grrl Revolution, Peyton Bryant (Central Park attack survivor) CSSS (Campaign for Safer Subway Stations), Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family), NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault, New York Men Against Sexism, NY NOW, Lisa Oelfke of Women's Mobilization, Third Wave Foundation and many more. ¡¡¡Un año después, seguimos INDIGNADAS!!! El 11 de junio del 2000, 56 mujeres fueron empapadas con agua, desvestidas y manoseadas por un grupo de hombres en el Parque Central. ¡¡¡Acompáñenos el s�bado, 9 de junio en el Parque Central, para asegurarnos que nadie olvide lo sucedido!!! El proyecto Acoso Callejero, en coalición con varios grupos de activistas, ha organizado un mítin para recordar lo sucedido en el Parque Central. Tendremos la oportunidad de sacar a luz el abuso sexual que las mujeres sufrimos todos los d�as a manos de hombres en espacios públicos. Desde acosos verbales a violaciónes y asaltos, los ataques perpetuados en contra de 56 mujeres en el Parque Central han llegado a simbolizar el terrorismo que sufrimos diariamente. Esta no es una protesta contra el desfile Puertorriqueño, sino una oportunidad para que las mujeres de todas las razas y nos unamos para luchar por nuestros derechos. Día: SÁBADO, 9 DE JUNIO A LA 1 DE LA TARDE Donde: Entrada al Parque Central en la 6ª Avenida con la calle 59 (cerca del lugar donde ocurrieron los ataques). Para mas información, llamar al: 212-713-5743 o escribir al info@streetharassmentproject.org.